I think using real weather data isn't a very good idea:
- As the WC races are 18GMT, it means the local track time is mostly in the evening aswell or even at night in some cases. This doesn't provide very realistic weather conditions as the races in real life are at 14 or 15 o'clock except some races.
- Finding the right and accurate weather information may be somewhat hard and you can't see how the weather progresses throughout the races. So in general, you could get the weather what is at the beginning of the race, but you don't what happens later.
There are some alternatives too as well..
1) Make a weather forecast up like STC does. I can't recall exactly, but i think their forecast starts 7 days before the race and it goes more accurate after every day. Of course, there can be mistakes in weather forecast
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But this system needs a (very) reliable person who makes it, and also he has to set up the server. In addition, he can't be a driver in FSR and better if he isn't tied to any team/driver.
2) Random weather. It just throws a random weather condition. Don't know how it will be done in rF2, but I think it's related to tracks location and time of the race[date] (in GDB file). But then again, this system has it own flaws... Bigger teams could produce setups for almost every weather condition and so on..
I, personally, would prefer the first solution, but only then when there is a reliable person who makes the weather forecast.
Would be nice to hear what others thoughts about the weather system
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